Tool for manufacturing splint baskets



. TEN @F ARTEMAS BAKER, OF TEMPLETON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TOOL FOR MANUFACTURING SPLINT BASKETS.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

To all whom-515mm] conce/rn Be it. known that I, An'rEMAs BAKER, o't' Templeton, in the county ot lorcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful rfool for Riving Out Basket Stutl', of which the following is a` Jull, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specilication, in which-d Figure l is a plan ot' the bottom of the tool. Fig. 2 a longitudinal vertical section of the same on the line ir, 0c, of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 a transverse vertical section on the line y, y, of Fig. l.

In manufacturing thin strips of wood to be used tor basket stu'tf, chair bottoms and for other purposes, it has been customary to rive out the slip and afterward dress or finish its surface, this causes considerable delay and expense in the preparation of the stuff. lt is obvious that. if a plane is used having an opening in the top ot the stock for the slip or shaving to pass out atI` as in the ordinary bench plane, that the slip must be bent up so abruptly as it is separated from the piece of stuit that the fibers of the wood will be broken or crippled and the value of the article produced be materially diminished.

The object of my present invention is to produce a tool with which these slips may be cut from a piece of stuit with their surfaces smoothed at one operation.

That others skilled in the art may understand and use my invention l will proceed to describe the manner in which l have carried out the same.

ln the drawings A, is the stock, longitudinally through which tor a considerable portion of its length is formed a groove or recess B, which is open at the rear end of the stock at a', for the passage of the slip of wood after ithas been separated from the large piece of stuff. To the bottom or face of the stock is secured a guard plate C, having an inclined edge at b, alongside of this 19,229, dated February 2, 1858i.

plate is the cutting iron D made of thicker plate than the guard C, its cutting edge at c, is beveled on the inner side (as in Fig. 3) and incliues to correspond with the edge 1, the screws (Z, by which this iron is held to the stock pass through slots e, in the iron so that as the edge is worn or ground down the iron may be advanced and the edge c, be kept in the proper position, this edge is kept at such a distance below the edge b, as will give the proper thickness to the slipoverlapping' parts of the guard C, and the iron D is a guide E, which is secured to the stock by screws f, the st aight edge g of this guide, runs in contact with the side of the plank from which th-e slips are being cut, and the edge rf, being inclined at an acute angle to the guide or to the path of the plane. separates the slip from the piece of stuff by cutting the liber and not by riving or rcnding it olli, an'd the surface from which. the slip is taken off is lei-'t smooth so that when the next slip is taken otli, both of its sides will be smooth enough for use without any subsequent finishing. The slip as it is separated from th-e plank passes through the groove B, out from the plane at a, without having been bent up in such a manner as to injure the integrity of its fibers.

l ain aware that planes have been used having the edge of the iron inclined to the path of the plane. Therefore l do not claim this feature alone; but

Blhat l claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The above described tool consisting essentially of the guide E-the plate C, and the horizontal iron D, with its inclined edge c, in connection with a horizontal recess B, and opening a. operating in the manner and for the purpose substantially as set forth.

ARTEMAS BAKER.

Signed in presence of* Y Einis'rns 0. EDERY,

DEXTER GILBERT. 

